Is it possible to create email alerts based on Groups in web console without adding each nodes in alerts manager trigger condition. So I any nodes in a group went down I need a email alert with node name, priority and Group name.
Yes.This can be accomplished using the "Group Member" property type with the ${GroupMemberName} and ${GroupName} macros in the alert message body.
I'm doing this now alerting on some group status's... One thing I noticed though... You can't really mix group and node logic in an alert trigger condition... it's either Node or Group it seems... at least that's how it seems to be to me when I tried to build a trigger with group and node logic I couldn't seem to get the interface to allow it.
Yes, there is an existing feature request to add custom properties to groups which would immensly help in using them in alerts.
Any update on this request? I was just trying to accomplish something similar on a customer's NPM 11.0.1 setup and it still fails. I have plans to upgrade the customer to the latest NPM 11.5.3 if that helps.
I was wondering if a work around of using the Groups in the Alert suppression logic (with the Nodes in the Trigger condition) would be an alternative.
